Texas

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Background • Federal Census Summary • Counties • Links to State ResourcesBackground

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Texas was part of Mexico until its revolution in 1835-36 made it an independent republic, with a territory somewhat larger than the present State. It became part of the United States and was admitted as a State on December 29, 1845. It reached essentially its present boundaries in 1850, after the sale to the United States of an extensive northwestern area. In 1896 a long-standing dispute over what is now Greer County, Oklahoma was decided against Texas by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1930 a Supreme Court decision transferred from Oklahoma to Texas a narrow strip on the eastern side of the Texas Panhandle. Beginning in 1905, international treaties and conventions have exchanged small tracts along the Rio Grande with Mexico, notably in and adjacent to the city of El Paso.

Federal Census Summary

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Census coverage of eastern Texas began in 1850, although in 1820 and 1830 the census counts for (old) Miller County, Arkansas Territory, included some people in what is now Texas. By 1880 census coverage included the entire State.

1790: ---	1800: ---	1810: ---	1820: ---	1830: ---	1840: ---	1850: 212,592	1860: 604,215
1870: 818,579	1880: 1,591,749	1890: 2,235,527	1900: 3,048,710	1910: 3,896,542	1920: 4,663,228	1930: 5,824,715	1940: 6,414,824
1950: 7,711,194	1960: 9,579,677	1970: 11,196,730	1980: 14,229,191	1990: 16,986,510	2000: 20,851,820

Counties
Anderson Andrews Angelina Aransas Archer Armstrong Atascosa Austin Bailey Bandera Bastrop Baylor Bee Bell Bexar Bexar (district) Blanco Borden Bosque Bowie Brazoria Brazos Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Buchel Burleson Burnet Caldwell Calhoun Callahan Cameron	Camp Carson Cass Castro Chambers Cherokee Childress Clay Cochran Coke Coleman Collin Collingsworth Colorado Comal Comanche Concho Cooke Coryell Cottle Crane Crockett Crosby Culberson Dallam Dallas Dawson (old) Dawson Deaf Smith Delta Denton DeWitt Dickens	Dimmit Donley Duval Eastland Ector Edwards Ellis El Paso Encinal Erath Falls Fannin Fayette Fisher Floyd Foard Foley Fort Bend Franklin Freestone Frio Gaines Galveston Garza Gillespie Glasscock Goliad Gonzales Gray Grayson Gregg Grimes Guadalupe	Hale Hall Hamilton Hansford Hardeman Hardin Harris Harrison Hartley Haskell Hays Hemphill Henderson Hidalgo Hill Hockley Hood Hopkins Houston Howard Hudspeth Hunt Hutchinson Irion Jack Jackson Jasper Jeff Davis Jefferson Jim Hogg Jim Wells Johnson
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State Resources

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Texas Tombstone Transcription Project
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Cemeteries of Texas, Gloria B. Mayfield
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The Political Graveyard: Miscellaneous Areas, Texas
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References

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Forstall, Richard L., Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790 to 1990, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 1996.

Perry, Marc J., et. al., Population Change and Distribution: Census 2000 Brief, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 2001.